Software Development Engineer, Amazon

innovative business and technical solutions that help drive up product selection for our customers, and continue to facilitate year on year growth in this dynamic, fast paced, ever growing business. We exist on the cutting edge of technical possibilities, pushing the boundaries of architectural thinking and distributed system design; We leverage the best of technology from across the industry, use the latest cloud computing technologies from AWS, where we help drive innovation for the benefit of Amazon and third party customers alike. Come and join our journey…Key job responsibilitiesAs a software engineer in Amazon, you are expected to have technical ownership of your designs and services and influence good coding practices among your peers. Responsibilities include design, code, review, test, fix, research, deploy and maintain services and code in Amazon cloud production environments. Successful candidates will be strong developers who can prioritize well, develop at the highest

standards in the industry, deal with ambiguous and non explored problem domains, and have a consistent track record of delivery.BASIC QUALIFICATIONSBachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalentExperience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented designExperience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture)Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, big “O” analysis and designing for performance, scalability and availabilityOutstanding problem-solving abilities and a clear commitment to making Amazon a great place to workPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONSMaster’s degree in computer science or equivalentExperience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operationsExperience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully

DESCRIPTIONAmazon Selection and Catalog Systems (ASCS) builds the systems that host and run the world’s largest e-Commerce products catalog. Our high scale distributed systems process hundreds of millions of updates on the billions of products to power the online buying experience for hundreds of millions of Amazon’s customers worldwide, so they can find, discover and buy anything they want 24x7x365.As part of ASCS, Amazon’s Selection Contribution Platform (SCP) team are looking for a passionate, talented and super-smart software engineer who innovates, loves solving hard problems and never takes no for an answer to join our growing team in London. Central to Amazon’s retail business, our high scale distributed systems hold the largest product catalog in the world, and manage data ingestion and processing from millions of external data contributors, Amazon’s own retail catalog, and Amazon internal customers including Kindle, Prime Video and Alexa. We drive Amazon’s growth by delivering